Volume 8: Health Insurance, Part IV
While the ACA has problems – serious ones – it is a fact that in the seven years since it has passed, the Republican Party has not come up w
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Still no exchange death spiral
But "death spiral" is not just a couple random words. Like most things in the English language, these words actually mean somethin
On Russia
Well, maybe this presidency is more like "The Americans" than reality TV. I don't want to get too newsy at a serious publication like...
The return of employer-sponsored insurance?
It's actually more difficult than you'd think to figure out how many people have health insurance. Government programs publish data,
Volume 7: Bayesian Analysis
Why You Can Never Be Sure of Anything “Bet you $50 it hasn't.” – xkcd #1132 People don’t like thinking probabilistically. They crave...
Concerning tax plans of the phenomenal variety
I think it's of note that Trump's assurance that his "phenomenal" tax plan is almost ready caused markets to jump on the e
Even more technical detail about Social Security
So I've been meaning to give an update on Social Security since writing Volume 1, but hadn't gotten around to it. But I found a very...
L7 scoops the NYTimes!
So New York Times is not yet quoting Lobby Seven Commentary. But, maybe they should, because we scooped them, writing a "Grading...
Obamacare: What do Private Actors Think
So I came across this thread, from Andy Slavitt, who was President Obama's head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. He is probably...
This ain't no death spiral (Obamacare edition)
So just after I published about the results of Obamacare, I came across a little document that demonstrates better how you can square my...
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